Seems perfectly fine for daily driving and is close to my setup. And in the end, the websites only know that you returned. Which would be nice to avoid but not really that bad. I think only if you are a whistleblower or want to report in anonymity to the press or police you need to be aware of these thinks. And it is way more important for a normal user to use a browser like Librewolf for security reasons than fingerprinting.
That is a good question with no real good answer. If you log into a site you don’t need fingerprinting protection, you are known to them. If you search for stuff on the internet you have too choose between good fingerprinting protection and good adblocking/security. Only Mullvad or Tor have very good fingerprinting protection. But Tor is not made as a daily driver. And Mullvad breaks a lot of stuff you may want to use. And with both you shouldn’t install any extensions, maybe just a password manager. I use Brave or Floorp (Firefox fork) as a daily driver. And yes, I modified them so it is easier to get a fingerprint. I use a VPN most of the time so even then the sites only know the IP address of the VPN service. But I want some convenience and good adblocking for my needs ( even the adblocking lists you use or don’t use can leave a fingerprint). And if a site uses modern fingerprinting you have no real chance. I found this test page and it is disturbing how good it is:
So, if you want to be anonymous use for this Mullvad or maybe Brave with standard settings and a VPN just for anonymity. And another browser as a daily driver were you log in and for example do your banking. There you need a secure browser and fingerprinting is not your concern. Some even recommend Chrome for this as it is very save. I don’t use Chrome but I get the point. I make sure that my browser just keeps the cookies I need for sites I want to be logged in and make sure the other cookies are delete when i close the browser. And yes, there are discussions if Firefox or the Brave anti fingerprinting is better. In my experience everyone installs some extensions or fits the browser to their needs ( like page zoom etc ) and with every setting or extension you create a new fingerprint for itself. Therefore it is a bit overrated. But I use browsers with privacy protection as I don’t like that for example Chrome sends the battery charging value to a website. Hope this helps.
The business packages for AdguardDNS and NextDNS include a IP4 address. Or you try AdguardVPN, I thing 2GB per month are free. But it still can cause trouble. VPNs are not made for encrypted DNS. They are made to cover up your identity.
DoT/DoQ/DoH can cause trouble in a VPN connection and slow it down. AdguardVPN offers the option and they wrote their own protocol called TrustTunnel (it is open source since beginning of this year). I used AdguardVPN for a while and it regularly slows down the connection a lot. I activate DoH in my browser when I think I need it. Also, using a different DNS Server can be a way to help fingerprinting you. I also were keen to find a VPN with DoT/DoQ/DoH but now I’m glad Proton puts security and speed over one feature that can cause a lot of problems. And yes, they could try to put TrustTunnel in their service. But as many people always come back to the Russian connection of Adguard this will also give a backslash. There as to be a good reason why Mullvad and IVPN also don’t offer to change the DNS Server to DoT/DoQ/DoH.
If you use MacOS or iOS you can try Passepartout from the App Store. You can set up a wireguard connection and also set a DNS Server with encryption. But often you manually have to change the wireguard profile to make it work. And this also with some downsides. Check the reddit forum for support.
Also, if you use a VPN it should be quite difficult to identify you if you use a non encrypted DNS server. You have to trust Proton already that they don’t protocol your connection. And the DNS server only sees the Proton IP address. If you are based in Europe you can try https://dnsforge.de/ with the hard option. This includes HaGeZi Ultimate.
( I don’t work for Proton and have no connection to them other than using their products. )
No. Librewolf and Waterfox let you use the Firefox Sync if you turn it on in the settings. But I don’t know about any self hosting.
You can try Librewolf or Waterfox. Librewolf is better on privacy ( like fingerprinting ), Waterfox quicker. And both have no Ai on board. You should use them with UBlock and I would not install to many extensions.
With Librewolf or Brave you can only reopen the browser with all last pages or none. But you can ask in both browsers for each specific page you like for a exception to keep cookies and website data. This is how I’m rolling. And I block all scripts and only make exceptions when I need them on a homepage. In Librewolf I use UBlock for this, Brave has its own setting for this.
I use containers and made on for all google sites, one for Amazon, one for news sites, etc. And why don’t you configure your Browser so that all data and caches are deleted when you close the browser? it is the same effect as private browsing without the flag private browsing. And if you want to avoid tracking, do you use a DNS service like AdguardDNS or NextDNS? And for fingerprinting you could use Mullvad or Librefox Browser. But they break some websites, both support containers.
I just switched to Firefox and i like it. This makes it even faster: https://justthebrowser.com/ And I love the Multi-Account Containers Adon that separets cookies and other stuff.
It gets some numbers wrong but it is still able to recognize you when you return. this is the worrying part. Sorry for the freeze, for me it works.